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The Surrender of the Gods, part 1
Chapter 2 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Fish in Water
Chapter 1 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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The Present Crisis
Introduction to The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Announcing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
A new philosophy of progress for the 21st century
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June 2024

Announcing Progress Conference 2024: Toward Abundant Futures
Also: The Roots of Progress is now the Roots of Progress Institute (RPI)
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May 2024

One week left to apply for the Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive
Apply today to join a peer group, meet our advisors, and grow your audience
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April 2024

Announcing the 2024 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive
Learn from progress writers, build a writing habit, improve your prose, and grow your audience
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Jason Crawford
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March 2024

What is progress?
In one sense, it is simple and straightforward; in another, it contains an entire worldview
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February 2024

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
Also: Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom
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Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model
Also: cellular reprogramming, pneumatic launch systems, and terraforming Mars
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December 2023

2023 in review
A new fellowship program, an essay with interactive animated diagrams, 65,000 words of essays, over a dozen talks and interviews, and lots of reading
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Accelerating science through evolvable institutions
If we want to see our scientific institutions improve, we need to make sure they can evolve
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